Econ Teachers

I am not sure if this has been mentioned before, but Wolfram Alpha is a great website for finding economic and other data. Wonderful charts and diagrams that aggregate information, compare and contrast, etc. It is really worth a look.

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You are a pirate commander staked with $50,000 from local tribal leaders and other investors. Your job is to guide your pirate crew through raids in and around the Gulf of Aden, attack and capture a ship, and successfully negotiate a ransom. Read More http://www.wired.com/special_multimedia/2009/cutthroatCapitalismTheGame#close=1#ixzz0kUiJh4q1

Entrepreuneur moving business out of CA to China over gov regulation

All of the tax hikes as a result of the health care reform of 2010

Uses econ data (among others) to show how different regions of the world have changed over time. Uses Gapminder technology to set graphs and charts in motion.

This is great. I'm glad Google is putting some effort into developing the Gapminder software. The OECD Quality of Life indicators look like a great way to dive in Macroeconomic indicators.

Interactive graphic that can be used to have students try to trim the budget just like they are discussing in real-life. Also interesting to see what areas are being cut and what areas are being added to.

This is my own site that I've made for my students. It contains links to good resources (videos, flash lessons, etc.) that they can use to supplement their in-class learning and the homework I give them. The resources are all student-friendly and grouped according to the IB units.

Great group of lesson plans, resources, and even widgets for a blog/wiki.

FYI---Link appears to be broken...:(

This is the working link - http://www.pbs.org/teachers/access-analyze-act-economy/ I don't know what happened the first time around. Thanks for letting me know Gene

Shows in real time the change in unemployment across the country since the start of the recession. Also a neat addition---you can select up to 5 states and compare the changes in unemployment on a line graph next to the interactive graph...

Graphic on change in Market Capitalization of major companies in last 10 years AND where those companies are located...nice illustration of "Creative Destruction"...

Pressure is on China to revalue the RMB, but it's unlikely to happen anytime soon. Why? Read to find out...

NICE Adobe Flash graph showing the change in Unemployment county by county for the last two years...EYE OPENING for students...

This is an excellent graphic, I showed it to my AP Macro students. They can't exactly explain it yet, but it certainly had a powerful impact. Will use it again later in the year for sure.

I find it amazing (and troubling) that Latin America and Africa have made no appreciable gains in 40 years. They are rich in human capital and other productive resources....as a side note, I noticed in one of the comments on the blog you found this graphic there was some conversation about the CPI and that it was reconfigured in the 1990's(?) and that with the new method inflation is underestimated, therefore RGDP must be overstated...I have to admit ignorance on this issue...Are you familiar with it? Any commments as to the validity of the underestimation of inflation? Thanks!!

Gene, I'm not sure we should be so troubled by the flat trend lines for Latin America and Africa. Keep in mind, this is not GDP, this is share of world's GDP. Unlike total output, which is NOT a zero sum concept, share of total output IS a zero-sum concept. A gain made by one part of the world is only possible by a loss made in another part of the world. The decline of the EU 15's share of world GDP does not mean that the EU 15 experienced a decline in output. In fact, the EU 15 have grown steadily over the last 40 years. Their downward sloping curve indicates that they have grown more slowly than the rest of the world, that's all. So the flat lines for Africa and Latin America in fact indicate that those two regions have grown more rapidly than Europe. Although it doesn't look like it on this graph, the "poor south" is actually catching up with the "rich north" as average growth in Europe lags behind that in the south. It's a bit misleading to interpret the graph in this way, but the gains in Asia have in a way come at the expense of gains in Europe, but only in that they now have a larger share of a MUCH larger pie! All regions have grown, and Latin America and Africa have grown AS quickly as the US, and MORE quickly than Europe. Good news!

Thanks for the reply and the analysis...I did not occur to me to think of it in those terms...I am better off for asking the question!!! :)

Economists discuss recent recessons

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